Strong c-Jun/AP-1 immunoreactivity is restricted to apoptotic cells following intracerebral ibotenic acid injection in developing rats

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-31

  Ferrer, Isidro ^a   Pozas, Esther ^a   Ballabriga, Jordi ^a   Planas, Anna M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INST D INVESTIGACIONS B   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; c Jun; c Jun N terminal kinase 1; Cell death; Developing brain

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IBOTENIC ACID; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; IBOTENIC ACID; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030983123     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(97)01176-0     Document Type: Article

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